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- May 1967 (Creation)
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11/05/67: letter from Benjamin Pogrund [??] on Rand Daily Mail paper about books he has sent to "Bob" [Sobukwe] not being delivered or being returned; he also says "After your February visit to Bob, there was an immediate improvement in the receipt of letters from him ... But then they got up to their old game of holding letters for an average period of three weeks".
Letters from a Mr. Theodore Johannes Klopperman, a 'free thinking person', who was jailed, age 72, under the Suppression of Communism Act and from Ray Swart to Helen Suzman about Klopperman; Helen Suzman replies to Swart and says "You, Sir, are getting rather fat — what has happened to the lugubrious and erstwhile agbare lid for The Black Umfolosi?".
An affidavit in Afrikaans by Jason Daniel Mutumbulua (SWAPO) who was arrested on 01/02/67 and tortured; there's a drawing of the 'torture room' attached.